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Would you like to be a part of The London Borough of Hounslow, whose diverse workforce are committed to making a positive difference for our residents and visitors by ensuring the quality of our services are maintained to a high standard?

Hounslow Council is an outstanding council serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships across the borough which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place, full of potential, but a borough hit hard -socially and economically -by Covid-19. We have stepped up for our residents and businesses like never before.

About The Role

The Community Access Service (CAS) supports people with learning disabilities and autistic spectrum conditions to lead full and purposeful lives.

The service focuses on enabling our service users (residents) to become active citizens in their community, empowering them to achieve their goals and develop their social skills.

We deliver a range of projects, activities/outings and community-based drop in’s during the day, evenings and weekends, as well as virtual sessions and online support using Zoom.

Some of the co-produced opportunities we provide include:

• Our Drop-in and advocacy services

We are looking for a dedicated Community Support Worker to join our team. The successful applicant will support local Hounslow residents to access various community-based activities using person centred approaches with clear pathways for residents to progress towards independence. For the right candidate, this is a unique opportunity to take your career to the next level, if you share our passion, we want to hear from you.

This Role is a community-based role. 80% of your week will be spend in the community supporting people in different settings.

Key Responsibilities:

1. To promote independence and choice by coordinating, facilitating, and providing high quality reliable support to individual residents with learning disabilities living in London borough of Hounslow supporting their access and integration into the community.

2. Applying the principles of personalisation in the delivery and development of the Community Access Service projects, drop in’s and sessions, maximising participation of residents in attendance.

3. To support and enable individuals to meet their social needs by providing and developing a wide range of opportunities including volunteer work, access to community resources, leisure and recreation activities, outreach, travel training, sessional activities.

4. Support Residents to access and be fully integrated into the community as positive role models that celebrates diversity and inclusion.

Your Skills:

1. Experience of working in supporting people with learning disabilities to explore new opportunities, access local resources and identifying areas which will enable individuals to flourish.

2. A good understanding and commitment to safeguarding vulnerable adults/adults at risk.

3. An understanding of barriers people with disabilities face in relation to accessing community activities, including public transport, with clear creative and innovative strategies for overcoming these.

4. The ability to work flexibly and be self-motivated, organised, physically fit and can lone work in the community, whilst managing own workload and communicating effectively.

Professional Qualifications

• Relevant Health and Social Care qualification (desirable)
• Maths/ English Grade C or above at GCSE (essential)

Essential for The Role:

Enhanced DBS

We value diversity in its broadest sense. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves, give of their best and reach their full potential. We believe that a diverse workforce helps us to better understand our communities and deliver the best services for our residents. We want to receive applications from all regardless of age, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background. We want to harness the mix and ensure that everybody can apply and be part of our recruitment processes. We will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates.

For more information please contact [email protected] or 07816 067959.

If you would like to arrange to visit the Community Access Service prior to applying for the post, please contact Judith Freitag to arrange a date and time – Come and meet us all.

Interviews will be held on 6 July 2023.